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Acts 18:19

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When they arrived at Ephesus, Paul asked Priscilla and Aquila to stay there. He himself went into the synagogue and talked with the Jews.

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May he find mercy from the Lord on the day Jesus returns as judge! You know very well how many ways he helped me in Ephesus.

As I told you when I went into Macedonia, I want you to stay there in Ephesus. I need you to command certain people not to teach things that aren’t true and not to spend their time on made-up stories

From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God. To God’s holy people in Ephesus, who are faithful to Christ Jesus.

But I’m going to stay here in Ephesus until the day of Pentecost.

If I fought wild animals in Ephesus with nothing more than human hopes, then what did I gain by that? If the dead aren’t raised, “Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we’ll die.”

Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus because didn’t want to spend too much time in the province of Asia. He was in a hurry to get to Jerusalem because he wanted to be there if possible by the day of Pentecost.

While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul took the inland road over to Ephesus. When he arrived there, he found some disciples.

Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos came to Ephesus. He was an educated man from Alexandria who knew the Scriptures very well.

Every Sabbath day he went to the synagogue and tried to persuade both Jews and Greeks to believe.

“Write this to the angel of the church in Ephesus: These are the words of the one who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands.

The voice said, “Write what you see on a scroll and send it to the seven churches in Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”

But you’ve seen and heard what this man Paul is doing. Here in Ephesus and almost everywhere in the province of Asia he has led large numbers of people away from our gods. He says that gods made by human hands aren’t gods at all.

When the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus heard about this, they were all overcome with fear. It led them to hold the name of the Lord Jesus in high honor.

As he left, he made them a promise. “If God wants me to,” he said, “I will come back.” Then he sailed from Ephesus.

They asked him to spend more time with them, but he said he couldn’t.

When the workers heard this, they became very angry. They began shouting, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

Finally the city clerk quieted down the crowd. “People of Ephesus!” he said. “The whole world knows that our city guards the temple of the great Artemis and the statue of her that fell from heaven.

From Miletus, Paul sent for the elders of the church at Ephesus.

They said this because they had seen Trophimus, a man from Ephesus, in the city with Paul. They assumed that Paul had brought him into the temple.




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